MC878427: Restricted Content Discoverability for SharePoint Sites

Announcement ID	MC890882		Published Date	09-16-2024
Service	Copilot		Last Updated	09-16-2024
Category	Plan for change		Expiration Date	11-04-2024
Roadmap ID			Action Required by Date
Tags	Admin impact, New feature, User impact

Summary
Microsoft has launched Copilot Pages for Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers, enabling collaborative AI interactions and multiplayer prompting. The feature is automatically enabled but comes with admin controls for customization. It starts rolling out today and will be fully available by late September 2024.

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If you have opted-in to the Copilot experience, we are excited to announce that Microsoft has released Copilot Pages as default enabled. It comes with admin controls should you need to control the experience differently within your tenant. When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide) to Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers: We will begin rolling out today, September 16, 2024, and expect to complete by late September 2024. How this will affect your organization: Today we announced Copilot Pages, a first step in our new design system for knowledge work. Copilot Pages is a dynamic, persistent canvas in Copilot chat designed for multi-player collaboration. With Pages, you can turn insightful Copilot responses into something durable with a side-by-side page that you can edit and, when ready, share with your team to collaborate. Copilot Pages starts rolling out today for Microsoft 365 Copilot users and soon for Microsoft 365 subscribers. If you have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, you and your team can work with Copilot directly on the page when you open it in full screen. In a multiplayer approach, prompt Copilot together as a team to improve and expand responses, learn from each other's prompts, and organize complex information. With Copilot Pages, human to AI interactions come to life. We see collaborative prompting as the next great step forward in evolving Copilot from an individual, point-in-time exercise into a collaborative experience. You can return to pages at any time by clicking the link in chat or the Open Page icon at the top of the associated Copilot session. Additionally, users can view all their pages in the Pages module in Microsoft365.com where they can also collaborate with others. Microsoft 365 Copilot users can use Copilot to refine the content on a page. Created pages are stored in a user-owned SharePoint Embedded container. The container is lifetime-managed with the user account, so like OneDrive, the container and its content are deleted when the user account is deleted. What you need to do to prepare: There is nothing you need to do to prepare, the feature is automatically enabled. If you wish to change the configuration of the feature, there are three ways to consider based on your needs. You can (1) assign or unassign Copilot licenses to users that you do or do not want to have this experience, (2) use a Cloud Policy setting to prevent users from creating new Copilot pages in Copilot Business Chat, and/or (3) use Conditional Access or Information Barriers policies to block certain users from accessing Copilot pages as needed. Instructions for using the Cloud Policy to enable/disable Copilot pages in your tenant repeated here for ready reference: Sign in to https://config.office.com/ with your Microsoft 365 admin credentials. Select Customization from the left pane. Select Policy Management. Create a new policy configuration or edit an existing one. From the Choose the scope dropdown list, choose either All users or select the group for which you want to apply the policy.  In Configure Settings, choose this setting: For Create and view Loop files in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat: Enabled: Copilot chat experience is available to the users. Disabled: Copilot chat experience isn't available to the users. Not configured: Copilot chat experience is available to the users. Save the policy configuration. Reassign priority for any security group, if required. (If two or more policy configurations are applicable to the same set of users, the one with the higher priority is applied.) In case you create a new policy configuration or change the configuration for an existing policy, there can be a delay in the change being reflected as described below: If there were existing policy configurations prior to the change, then it may take 90 mins for the change to be reflected. If there were no policy configurations prior to the change, then it may take 24 hours for the change to be reflected.